Wednesday, April 03, 2013

Did Democrats and Republicans Put Aside Partisan Politics For a Joint Cause?

I am curious. I heard
a tale the other day and I wonder if it is true or not.

If the tale is true it would mean the political leaders of both parties have finally did
something non-partisan. That sounds good
doesn't it? In a non-partisan way they
decided to rob the American public, for the good of the country, of course.

The tale went something like this: A man was
on vacation in Europe. I don't
know if he brought along his family or not, it doesn't matter. To tour Europe better he rented a Volkswagen. He was surprised just how great mileage he
got on the VW. He hardly had to put any
gas in it.

He wrote down the Volkswagen model, number, and what other
important information and when back in the states he went to a VW dealer and told them he would
like to place an order for that certain kind of car. They quickly told him that car was not
available in the United Sates. The car
was banned from the United States.
The more he investigated the more
he found other makes of cars, European manufactured, were also banned for the
same reason,: They got too good gas
mileage.

Here is the bottom line:
Getting better gas mileage would cause less gasoline to be bought thus
less fuel tax would come into the government.
The government really depends on that gasoline tax to run the government. It has been going on through several
administrations, both Democrat and Republican.

John Q. Public, or Bill the Plumber, could cut a lot his
living expense a lot with these new fuel efficiency cars, but it the U.S. needs
his money more than he does, apparently.